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'''Samuel Johnson''' (1709-1784), almost invariably referred to in literary circles as '''Dr. Johnson''', was an English writer and lexicographer based in London.   

 

 

 

''Samuel Johnson''' (1709-1784), almost invariably referred to in literary circles as '''Dr. Johnson''', was an English writer and lexicographer based in London.   

The son of a bookseller of modest means, he attended local schools and spent a year at Oxford.  He was largely self-educated, using the stock in the family bookstore as his base. (There were no public libraries.) Unable to obtain a teaching position he started to write for money; in 1735 he married a wealthy widow Elizabeth Porter, née Jervis (1689–1752), twenty years his senior.  He moved to London in 1737, working as a political journalist and translator and starting to earn some money from his poetry; he had no children.   

The son of a bookseller of modest means, he attended local schools and spent a year at Oxford.  He was largely self-educated, using the stock in the family bookstore as his base. (There were no public libraries.) Unable to obtain a teaching position he started to write for money; in 1735 he married a wealthy widow Elizabeth Porter, née Jervis (1689–1752), twenty years his senior.  He moved to London in 1737, working as a political journalist and translator and starting to earn some money from his poetry; he had no children.